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Christmas is getting closer, so it is time to start decorating your desktops! Today we have a collection of fun and colorful Merry Christmas icons to help get you and your desktop ready for the holidays.

Merry Christmas Icons

Note: To customize the icon setup on your Windows 7 & Vista systems see our article here. Using Windows XP? We have you covered here.

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Here is the holiday desktop that we put together using the Standard Christmas Icons 2010.1 pack shown below.

Note: The original, unmodified version of this wallpaper can be found here.

Question: after you download an icon pack, where does it go? I’m using Firefox and Windows 7, and I think it went somewhere in a Firefox folder (extensions?), but can’t find it when I’m going through the Change Icon process and browsing files. I should have paid better attention. Does anyone know what the default location is? I checked my download folder and it isn’t there. Love the Christmas icons and would like to get them on my computer.

@Kathy – Here is a trick that I have used before to find out where a download “disappeared” to. Try downloading the file again but stop as soon as the “Save As” location is displayed. ^_^ It may also be a matter of Firefox “asking” a file zipping utility to open the file upon download instead of saving it. When the Save Window appears make sure that it is set to saving instead of opening. ^_^ I have been caught on the difference between a zip and rar file on this before too (until the I got the settings sorted out on a fresh portable Firefox install). ^_^

@Asian Angel – Thank you! My desktop is now quite merry. Realized I actually downloaded a toolbar not the Standard Christmas icons themselves. (Blindly followed the big “Download Now” buttons when looking at Christmas icons.) Any guidance on how to delete unwanted toolbars and any associated programs that came with them? I don’t see them in my Downloads folder, or in the Applications list. I want to delete the toolbar and any associated software that came with it completely.

@Kathy – To remove those toolbars go to your Control Panel and look for “Programs -> Uninstall a program”. From there you can find the toolbars by scrolling through the software listed and uninstall them. ^_^